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pixijs vs rill
pixijs has 48,179 GitHub stars, 5,071 forks, 344 open issues and last shipped yesterday. rill has 2,893 stars, 201 forks, 211 open issues and last shipped yesterday. pixijs leads on adoption by 1,565% (48,179 vs 2,893 stars). pixijs is written in TypeScript under MIT; rill is written in Go under Apache-2.0. pixijs has attracted 11% as many forks as stars, rill 7%. rill was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (data-visualization), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| pixijs | rill | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 48K | ★ 2.9K |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | TypeScript | Go |
| Last push | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-17 |
| Forks | ⑂ 5.1K | ⑂ 201 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick pixijs if
- You weight community size — 48K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick rill if
- You want the rill feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and rill fits your workflow better
About pixijs
PixiJS is an open source 2D rendering library for the web, described in its README as the HTML5 Creation Engine. It ships WebGL and WebGPU renderers and is written in TypeScript, distributed under the MIT license from the pixijs/pixijs repository, which has been developed for fourteen years and holds roughly 48,000 stars across about 5,000 forks. The project lives in the JavaScript and TypeScript ecosystem: it is installed through npm and driven from browser code, with GLSL shaders, canvas, canvas2d, and rendering engine listed among its topics. Its homepage is pixijs.com, and the repository carries the Data and …
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About rill
Rill is a Go business intelligence tool in the Data & Analytics / Business Intelligence & Reporting ecosystem, released under the Apache 2.0 license. It is agent first and human friendly, and it is powered by OLAP engines such as ClickHouse and DuckDB.
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Frequently asked questions
Is pixijs or rill more popular?
pixijs has 48,179 GitHub stars and rill has 2,893. pixijs has the larger community by that measure.
Are pixijs and rill free?
Both are open source. pixijs is licensed under MIT and rill under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between pixijs and rill?
pixijs is written in TypeScript and rill in Go. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, pixijs or rill?
Choose pixijs if you want the larger community (48,179 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose rill if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.